Edward Thomas Quotes

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• As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
• Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904
• NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few…
• The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should…
• Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
• I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.
• I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms…
• If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.
• I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in…
• To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise…
• The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
• How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able…

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